Suspensory-bandage



(NoModeL) E. G. WINCHESTER.

SUSPENSORY BANDAGE.

' Patented June 30, 1885.

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EDWVARD GEORGE WINCHESTER, OF ASHBURNHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUSPENSORY-BANDAGE.

EPEClPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 321,072, dated June 30, 1885.

Application filed April 29, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD GEORGE WIN- CHESTER, of Ashburnham, in the county of \Vorcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspensory-Bandages or Scrotum-Supports; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a perspective view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical and transverse section, of asnspensory-bandage or scrotum-supporter of myinvention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

Such bandages as usually made consist of a sack or bag, openin rear and in front and suspended from a belt, the rear opening in\such being for insertion into it of the scrotum, and the front opening being for the penis to extend through it. To several of such bandages there have been a strap or straps to project from the lower part of the scrotum-opening, such strap or straps, when the article was in use, being to extend between the legs of the wearer, and thence up his back to the belt, to which,or to short straps depending therefrom, they were buckled or otherwise separately connected. When any such bandage is in wear, the edge of the iouth of the scrotumsack is generally, if not always, pulled or drawn backward against the parts of the body immediately adjacent to the scrotum, whereby contraction or irritation of the spermatic cords frequently results. The purpose of my improvement is the prevention of such from occurring.

To accomplish this, I have the sack A dependent from and opening at its rear through a tlexile bearing or plate, B, which is shaped very like an equilateral triangle, the penis-educt a of the sack being in its upper part, as represented. The induct or mouth for insertion of or,inj ury resulting therefrom.

the scrotum into the sack is shown at b. From 5 the upper angle of the said bearing-piece B elastic straps O C diverge upward to a belt, D, which is to extend around the waist of a person, the straps O 0 being buttoned to the belt or buckled to shorter straps, E, depending 5o therefrom. There is attached to the lower angle or corner of the said bearing-piece an elastic strap, F, which, when the bandage is in use, extends backwardly between the legs of the wearer and up to the rear or middle of the dorsal part of the belt, to which the strap may be buttoned or be connected by a buckle and short strap, the latter being fixed to the belt.

When my improved scrotum-supporter is in use, the bearing piece rests against the body, while the scrotum is in the sack, the bearingpiece by its great extent of bearing-surface preventing contraction of the spermatic cords I claim 1. The scrotum-supporter, substantially as described, consisting of the bearing-plate,provided with an opening into the rear part of the sack, and of the sack, open in rear and in its upper part, and projecting from the said bearingplate, as set forth, the opening in the upper part of the sack being for reception of the penis, while the scrotum may be in the sack,and the bearing-plate is against the parts 7 5 of the body in immediate contiguity of the penis and scrotum.

2. The combination of the belt and the three suspensory-straps,extending therefrom to the corners of the bearing-piece, with such bear- 8o ing-piece,and with the sack projecting therefrom and opening through it, and provided with a penis-receiving opening, all being substantially as set forth.

EDWARD GEORGE WINCHESTER. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, ERNEST B. PRATT. 

